NAAL Newsletter
Spring 2002
Letter from the President
I hope that you are planning to attend our academy meeting, January 2-5, 2003, to be held at the Hyatt Regency in Indianapolis, Indiana. The hotel is wonderfully situated downtown in National City Center, across from the State Capitol, and is linked by enclosed skywalk to the Convention Center/RCA Dome and the Circle Centre Mall. Nearby are Pan Am Plaza, Eiteljorg Museum, Conseco Field House, Hilbert Theatre (symphony) and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (15 minutes away) for you racecar enthusiasts. Within and around the hotel there are many quality restaurants featuring world-class cuisine.
I am also pleased to announce that Frank Burch Brown will be our plenary speaker for this year's convention. He is the Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts at Christian Theological Seminary (CTS) in Indianapolis. Dr. Brown is author of four books, including Religious Aesthetics (Princeton Univ. Press, 1989) and Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life (Oxford Univ. Press, 2000), which has been nominated for the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Religion and which was chosen by the Association of American Publishers as one of the three "most outstanding" academic books in religion and philosophy for the year 2000.
- For five years he was Area Editor in arts, media, culture, and religion for a new edition of the multi-volume Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Religion Past and Present), currently being published in German and later in English.
- A composer with twenty commissioned works to his credit, Brown is former Director of the Master of Arts in Church Music program at CTS. He was appointed a Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology for 1996-97, in the area of Theology and the Arts, and was Visiting Fellow in the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University for the fall term of 2000.
- He has lectured widely, having made multi-media presentations at academic institutions such as Cambridge, Yale, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Union Theological Seminary (NYC), and many more.
- In 1994 Brown gave the Walter Hussey Lecture in the Church and the Arts at Oxford University. He is also a consultant to churches and arts organizations.
I am looking forward to what he has to say to us and am certain that he will be a most captivating speaker.
So mark your calendars and plan to come to the capitol of Indiana in January 2003!
Michael S. Driscoll
University of Notre Dame
Annual Meeting
Make plans now!!!!!
Indianapolis Indiana - Hyatt Regency
January 2 - 5
Pre-meetings for Indianapolis 2003
The following are pre-meeting groups that have met in the past along with the group coordinators. Kindly contact our President Michael Driscoll if you wish to form another pre-meeting group or if there are changes in the past group.
- Anglican: William Seth Adams
- Lutheran: Gordon Lathrop
- Presbyterian: Jill Cranshaw
- Methodist: Daniel Benedict
- Jesuits: Jake Empereur
- Roman Catholics: Andrew Ciferni, Edward Foley and Joyce Zimmerman
Candidates for Membership at Indianapolis 2003
If you are a visitor and wish to make application for membership please note the process for application on this Web site.
If you are a member and have been asked to write a recommendation please send it to Scott Haldeman by September 15th! You may use the electronic form to speed up the process. Scott's e-mail:
shaldeman@ctschicago.edu
Biographical Statements of New Members
NAAL 2002 Reston, Virginia
- Jack Abel is a Ph.D. student in liturgical studies at the Catholic University of America, an ordained United Methodist pastor, and an occasional contributor to The Liturgical Conference's Homily Service. His research interests concern, especially, the influence of informed improvisation, as typical in Methodist ritual, on the meaning of liturgical performance. He is a member of the Liturgical Hermeneutics seminar.
- David Bains earned his Ph.D. in American religious history from Harvard University with a dissertation on twentieth-century Protestant liturgical reform. He is a United Methodist layman and currently serves as an assistant professor in the religion department at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is a member of the Post-Reformation Historical Research seminar.
- Ted Gibboney is the Director of Chapel Music and Religion and Arts Administrator for Christian Theological Seminary of Indianapolis. His non-liturgical passions include cooking, tennis, and irrelevant German literature. He is a member of the Contemporary and Alternative Worship seminar.
- David Hogue is Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and is currently working on a manuscript for Pilgrim Press relating developments in the neurosciences to pastoral care and worship. He is a member of Ritual-Language-Action seminar.
- Conrad L. Kraus holds the MA in Liturgy from the Catholic University of America and is the Director of the Office of Worship of the Diocese of Erie, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Environment and Art seminar.
- Dirk G. Lange was born in Winnipeg Canada and is Member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). He lived for 18 years as a brother at the Community of Taizé and visited with dissident underground churches in Eastern Europe during the 1980's. Now at Emory, he is working, under Don Saliers' direction, towards the PhD on a liturgical grammar in a post-modern world. He is a member of the Liturgical Theology seminar.
- Martha Moore-Keish completed her Ph.D. in theology at Emory University in 2000. Her dissertation with Don Saliers and Rebecca Chopp was on Reformed eucharistic theology, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of liturgical theology, the Reformed tradition, and ritual theory. She is now serving as an Associate in the Office of Theology and Worship of the Presbyterian Church (USA) in Louisville, Kentucky. She is a member of the Liturgical Theology seminar.
- Scott O'Brien, O.P. is a member of the Southern Province Dominicans, has served as university chaplain at Tulane University, and now acts as catechist and sacramental minister at Barry University. In addition, he is a lecturer in the department of theology and philosophy, teaching sacraments, liturgy and foundational theology to undergraduates. He is a member of the Formation for Liturgical Prayer seminar.
- Roc O'Connor, SJ, teaches in the Theology Department at Creighton University, Omaha, NE, and serves as Co-Director of Liturgy for the campus and for St. John's parish. He has a background in scripture, hermeneutics, and liturgical music that he has employed to foster the liturgical life of various parishes over the past 20 years. He is a member of the Formation for Liturgical Prayer seminar.
- Thomas Quartier studied theology and philosophy at Nijmegen University. For his dissertation, he is working on an empirical research project about catholic funeral rites. At the moment he teaches liturgical studies at the Theological Faculty of Nijmegen University. He has published about funeral rites and rituals of mourning. He is a member of the Ritual-Language-Action seminar.
- James Ross presently serves as Director of Liturgy and Music at St. Anne Church in Houston, Texas. He holds a M.A. in Liturgical Studies from Notre Dame, a M.Mus. from Northwestern, and is active in the area of church building and renovation as a liturgical design consultant. He is a member of the Environment and Art seminar.
- Deaconess Rhoda Schuler plans to defend soon (or may have just defended) a dissertation on the history of the rite of confirmation in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. She teaches at Concordia University and is a member of the Liturgical Theology seminar.
- Arthur J. Sikula is principal architect of his own firm, Arthur John Sikula Associates, P.A., and specializes in liturgical design. He continues to pursue liturgical studies at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, New York, and is a member of the Environment and Art seminar.
- Mark W. Stamm, O.S.L., is Assistant Professor of Christian Worship at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. In 1995, he received a Th.D. from Boston University. He is Abbot of the Order of Saint Luke and is a member of the Christian Initiation Seminar.
- Anne Yardley received her PhD in Musicology from Columbia University. Her dissertation and several subsequent articles focus on music in medieval English nunneries. She has taught in the Theological School at Drew University since 1990, was convener of the Liturgical Studies PhD program from 1999-2001, and currently serves as Associate Academic Dean. She also conducts a 45-voice girls' choir at St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Morristown NJ. She is a member of the Music seminar.
New Seminar to be convened at Indianapolis
Liturgical Language Seminar:
The Liturgical Language Seminar will attend to issues of the language of worship by examining liturgical texts.
Papers for January 2003 will include:
- "Dynamic Equivalent Translations of the Sanctus," by Gail Ramshaw
- "Lutheran and Greek Orthodox Funeral Rites Compared," by Melinda Quivik
- Other papers and/or presentations are welcome. Please contact Melinda Quivik: quivik@usfamily.net
Award to NAAL member
Member Gerard Austin, op will be honored with the 2002 Mathis Award at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Pastoral Liturgy Conference in June.
Composers Take Note!
- This is just a reminder that the deadline for submission of new Table Prayer settings for our annual banquet is August 31st, 2002. Please mail entries to Judith M. Kubicki, C.S.S.F., at Collins Hall, Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458-9993.
- A $500.00 prize will be awarded to the person or group of individuals submitting the winning entry. Check criteria on this website.
- For further information call Judith at 718-817-3262 or 914-667-7035.
Publications of the Membership
- In the past publications of the members were listed in the Newsletter. All such information may now be found in a separate section of the Website titled publications.
- Please send your information in electronic form only to the Webmaster stating that you are a member (state your seminar group) and wish to have your information placed under publications.